Released: 06-27-2011.........The Landsat 7 satellite recorded the flooding of the city of Minot, North Dakota, at its peak on June 25, 2011, when the Souris River in north central North Dakota surpassed an 1881 record flood reading by a wide margin.

Released: Mar 23, 2010 ... Update (3/25/2010): The USGS will host a congressional briefing on how the Landsat program provides impartial, authoritative information about land conditions for use in agriculture, forestry, regional planning, education, and global change research.

Dec 22, 2009 ... The prestigious 2009 William T. Pecora Award for outstanding contributions to the understanding of the Earth by means of remote sensing has been presented to Dr. Forrest Hall of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Team led from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center.

March 3,2009 The "eye in the sky" has proven to be a remarkable workhorse for global earth observations. A catalog of the over 700,000 Landsat 5 images is a 'photo album' of major events in the earth's history of the past 25 years.

May 23, 2008 ... USGS Scientists Present at 2008 International Meeting of the Society ... on hydrology and land cover and the cascading impacts on ecosystem ...www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1950

May 8, 2008 ... USGS is providing Landsat satellite imagery to aid rescue and recovery efforts in Myanmar in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis's landfall on ...www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1933&from=rss_home

May 2, 2008...Users will also benefit from changes to the USGS Landsat imagery distribution ... The change results in expanding the availability of the USGS Landsat data ...www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1929&from=news_side

Nov 29, 2007 ... The Landsat Program began in 1972, with the launch of the first Landsat satellite. "Sensors aboard Landsat satellites have captured millions ...www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1823

Feb 4, 2008 ... Land Remote Sensing is funded at $62.6 million, including a programmatic increase of $2.0 million to develop a National Land Imaging Program ...www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1867

Dec 15,2004...The US Geological Survey (USGS) has completed development of a major new product enhancement for Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data ...www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=410

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